In The Wolf's Rain
2- Legends Unfold
"When is it going to stop raining Tsume?" Toboe asks as the four guys lay around patiently waiting for the rain outside to stop.
"How am I supposed to know? Does it look like I have the power to control the weather?" Tsume snaps, moving his head away from the runt.
"I was just asking. It's so quiet and boring," Toboe says.
"Will you guys be quiet, I'm trying to get some sleep," Hige complains, putting his paws over his ears in order to block out the sound of voices.
"But you've been starring at Blue ever since we got in here," Toboe comments as he looks at the only female, sitting by the cave opening. Suddenly, Kiba gets up from his spot on the ground.
"Kiba, where are you going?" Hige asks as he turns his attention to Kiba.
"To Blue," Kiba says as he heads over. It has been a few days since the day they left the city. For the most part, no one has said much about what happened in the city or anything involving Paradise. They just wondered in what direction Kiba had started in, Blue always lagging behind them. On occasion, Hige and Toboe tried to get Blue to talk, but weren't able to get much out. Kiba then told them to leave her alone since she needed sometime to think. They all had their doubts in the beginning, but Blue's would be the strongest since she was the one who spent the most time as a human without herself knowing who she really was. It then started to rain a few hours ago, but luckily they came across this cave. The four guys taking a break in the back as Blue stayed in her wolf form, starring out into the rain as it started to get darker. Once Kiba arrives next to her, he takes a seat a few feet away and stares out into the rain as well.
"Kiba, tell me everything. Everything there is about Paradise and the legend," Blue says, keeping her head in the same direction.
"Are you sure you want to know?" Kiba asks, turning to look at her.
"If I'm gonna be a part of this, I want to know exactly what I'm getting myself into," Blue answers, turning for a second to look at him wit her deep blue eyes, only to return back to staring outside.
"There is a book called the Book of the Moon which tells the history of the wolves. No one is sure who wrote it though. The book of the moon talks about Paradise, the world of the wolves where we all lived peaceful, happy lives. We were known as the guardians of God, the ones that kept the peace in any of worlds that he created. The book also says that at one point, while the humans were still young, many demons ravaged the land that the humans were unable to control because they weren't that intelligent. These demons were destroying the humans, so in order to save them, God opened the doors to Paradise and sent the wolves to the human world in order to destroy the demons and save the humans. And that's exactly what we did. Unfortunately, the gates to Paradise were closed, leaving us wolves with the humans. At first, things were okay, but soon the humans started to turn on themselves. There were some who became more powerful than the other humans and began to rule over them. Those humans became known as the Nobles. After a while, they soon heard about Paradise and wanted that world for themselves. That's when things became tense between the humans and wolves. These Nobles got people to hunt the wolves, whether it is to capture them to try to gain the secret of Paradise from them, or just kill us off. In order to save ourselves, we learned how to trick humans into thinking that we were humans, thought we were still wolves. Over the years, wolves started to enjoy their lives as humans more than being a wolf and decided to stick with the human race, decreasing our numbers even more. To this day, there are humans who are really wolves…"
"Like me."
"…and the Nobles still exist, looking for the way to Paradise. Somewhere in time, the Book of the Moon appeared and both wolves and Nobles were able to read from it. IT talked about how there was only one true way to reopen the gates to Paradise. It mentioned four wolves that would appear: a wolf with the ability to feel from others, a wolf that could hear what could not be heard normally, and a wolf that could smell from miles more than normal, a wolf who could taste what seemed tasteless."
"You, Tsume, Hige, Toboe."
"I went out after hearing the legend from my pack leader before the pack was killed and found Tsume, Hige, and Toboe. Together we are supposed to find the flower maiden made of lunar flowers."
"You mean a human made of flowers?"
"The Nobles would create the technology that would be able to produce the maiden from lunar flowers. Lunar flowers used to exist in both worlds, but now only exist in Paradise, and that's why we believe the maiden has to be from a lunar flower. The flower maiden is supposed to be able to form the gate to Paradise which we could all see. We are also supposed to find the blue-eyed wolf that could see what could not be seen. This wolf would be able to lead us to the location of the gate and hopefully help lead us to the flower maiden herself."
"And I guess that wolf would be me, right?"
"As far as we can tell. Blue is not a normal eye color for wolves, even black wolves. Together, the…" Kiba suddenly stops the story, looking down on the ground.
Blue asks, turning towards him once again to get his attention.
"Together, the blue eyed wolf and the flower maiden would be able to open to gates to Paradise. When that happens, all those who truly are wolves will realize who they are and have the choice whether or not they want to continue to live with the humans or if they want to return to who they are. That's why you are so important. Without you, we can't open the gate and there will be plenty of wolves who were in the same position as you – feeling left out, without a place where they belong. Does that help?"
"Yeah it does. Thanks." The two sit there in silence again, until Blue breaks it. "It looks like the rain is dying down. I think we should head out, don't you?" she asks, getting up from her spot.
"It's your call from now on, Blue. We'll follow you unless something comes up," Kiba says as he gets up, surprising Blue enough that she makes eye contact with Kiba again. She then starts to make her way out of the cave.
"Get the others then and give me a few," she says as she runs outside, leaving Kiba to head back towards the group.
"You didn't tell her everything," Tsume says as they watch Kiba come back.
"Like the part about her…" Toboe starts before Kiba stops him.
"She can still hear us. It's best not to tell her now. She's still questioning this path. When the time comes, we'll tell her. Now get up, we're moving out," Kiba instructs. The three others get themselves up and follow their leader out of the cave. They soon see Blue in her human form starring out.
"We're going that way," she says, pointing towards the moon.
"Why that way?" Tsume asks.
"In the vision where I first saw my wolf form, I saw the moon. So I thought that the best thing to do would be to go towards the moon."
"Sounds like a plan to me. Let's get moving," Hige says as he starts the pack going.
"All stats are normal doctor. She has also been responding to the different stimuli we have been giving her. Other than that, there have been no changes over the past few days," reports a man in scrubs to a woman with blond hair wearing glasses as she scribbles something down in her journal.
"That's good. It means that Cheza is finally stable. Maybe now we can start attempting to disconnect her from the system," the blond woman says, looking at the other, back to the journal and then walking towards a giant green sphere. Inside of this sphere is a girl with purple hair in white chained by her wrists and ankles to the sphere. She walks up to the sphere and places her hand on it, as if she was waiting for the girl to move.
"Doctor Degre, there's been a sudden change in Cheza's activity. She seems to be giving off strange signals," another assistant reports from her seat in front of the computer
"I wonder why. Maybe the wolves have finally awakened and are on there way here." Doctor Degre states as she goes towards the computer and looks at the stats herself.
"What should we do then?"
"Lord Okum most likely knows about whether or not the wolves are coming. Just continue to monitor Cheza's signals and report to me if anything changes," the doctor says as she heads back her station in the lab.
Outside in a lobby area, two guards stand at attention. This attention is soon distracted as a strange person comes in wrapped in a cloak and his face covered by an odd mask, only one blue eye showing. The man continues to approach the guards without anything. "Excuse me sir, but you can't be in here," one guard says as he points his weapon at the intruder. The other guard does the same, only to be knocked unconscious by a strange high pitched noise.
"Soon, you will be mine flower maiden."
"What's happening here?" Doctor Degre asks as suddenly the lights except for Cheza's had shut off.
"We don't know. All power as been shut off and we can't contact security."
"What about Cheza?" one of the assistants ask.
"Her system runs on a different system than the main power. We should still be able to monitor her." Doctor Degre checks the system and monitor, nbodding in approval. "She still alright. Her signals are getting much stronger now. I'm gonna go check for some backup power. Keep monitoring Cheza." She leaves the others and goes behind Cheza's prison, when suddenly her name is heard.
"Doctor Degre!"
"What's wrong?" she asks, running out from behind to see all her assistants lying on the ground. She lifts her sight and looks upon the strenage person from before. "Who are you?"
"There's no reason for you to know who I am," it says, approaching Cheza as the doctor gets in front.
"You're after Cheza, aren't you?"
"There's no reason for you to have Cheza. You don't need her, like I do." The man then takes off his mask, revealing a golden colored eye and sending the doctor to the floor with the others. "It's time Cheza. Come with me," it says, lifting its hand up to the glass.
Our pack of wolves continue their journey, Kiba taking the lead and Blue in the rear. A sudden pang goes through her head, making her stop. "IS everything alright?" Kiba asks.
"Yeah. It's nothing," Blue says as she starts walking again, only to hear a girl shrieking thorugh her brain. She brings her hands to her ears in order to stop the noise, but it conitues to get louder until she can't stop it anymore. "Stop it, please!" she says as she stops herself, her face contorting in pain.
"What did you say?" Hige asks as they all stop and look at the female.
"Stop it! Get out!" She says grabbing her head harder and shaking it, as she starts to pace around.
"Blue, what's going on?" Toboe asks, scared at the way she was acting.
"Stop it. Stop it," Blue screams as she returns to her wolf form and smashes her head against the ground in an attempt to stop the noise.
"What in the hell is going on?" Tsume asks as they continue watching her bucking around and hitting her head.
"IF she keeps this up, she's gonna hurt herself. We have to try to get her under control," Kibe comments, making a dash towards her.
"Great idea," Tsume says as he, Hige and even Toboe surround her, trying to stop her from her wild spasming. Soon, Tsume grabs and holds down her legs as Hige and Toboe each pin down one of her arms. She continues jerking her head and what she can of her body around violently.
"Come on Blue, calm down," Hige says, attempting to plead as he starts to look worried. Kiba makes his way over, kneels down, and holds Blue head straight, in an attempt to calm her down. She soon stops her seizures and the guys let her go.
"Shit. What just happened to her?" Tsume asks as they stare at Blue on the ground.
"She must have had some type of vision, an intense one," Kiba says.
"She doesn't look like she'll be waking anytime soon," Toboe says as she pokes her.
"We'll just have to carry her then until we find someplace for the night."
"I got her Kiba," Hige says as he gets Blue onto her back with some help from Toboe.
"Do you think that this kind of stuff is going to happen often with her?" Tsume asks as they continue moving on.
"Not sure," Kiba says, leading again.
"What happened?" Cher asks herself as she slowly gets to a sitting position and holding her head in her hands. She looks at the floor to see liquid covering it. She then turns around and sees that Cheza's bubble had been broken and she was no longer there. "No, Cheza."
"This way. There are more people in here," a voice says as the doors to the lab open again and Cher sees some new people enter.
By the cover of some mountains, the pack relaxes as they wait for the girl to wake up. She suddenly pops up, but grabs in head in pain. "Dammit. My head feels like it's going to split."
"You're up," Tsume says as the others look towards her.
"What happened to you Blue? Was it a vision? What did you see?"
"Calm down Toboe. Let her get herself together," Kiba comments, keeping his sight on her.
"I saw this giant green ball. And inside, there was something that looked like a person, a girl. A girl with blood red eyes and she was looking out of the glass at all these bodies and this guy, thing. I have no idea what it was, but the face didn't move at all, like it was someone wearing a mask. HE put his hands up to the glass holding the person and then something happened and there was pain. After that, it all went black."
"The flower maiden. Someone must have gotten to her before us," Kiba says as he looks towards the moon above.
"Are you sure that it was the flower maiden?" Hige asks.
"Why would Blue have a vision about a human or anything unless it was someway part of our journey? Do you feel well enough to go on Blue?" Kiba asks.
"I'm fine. Let's get this started," Blue comments as she starts walking. "I just hope that this was the worst of the visions."